Enrollment: 4Age Range: Full day general education preschool program with pull out teacher of the deaf support instruction in the afternoon. Speech and language therapy provided on an individual basis.
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Enrollment: 7Age Range: A self contained program for students with severe to profound hearing loss has been designed to develop language skills in American Sign Language and English. The teacher of the deaf provides instruction in content areas. An educational interpreter provides interpreting as a related services for special subjects in the age appropriate general education programs. Speech and language specialists provide one-to- one speech and language therapy sessions for articulation and auditory training. Group speech sessions are also offered for the development of pragmatic language skills. State of the art FM systems and soundfield systems are available in the classroom. Instructional technology such as Smart Boards and personal computers are also utilized for class instruction.
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Enrollment: ongoingAge Range: Bergen County Community College has a long-standing commitment to equal access for all students, including those with hearing impairment. The Center for Collegiate Deaf Education--one of only two regional centers in the state-- offers sign language interpretation, c-print captioning, special workshops, transition activities, academic support and advisement, counseling, adaptive technology and accommodations, and career development.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: The Secondary Hearing Impaired Program offers a continuum of program options: full time placements in regular education programs with related services. A consultative teaching model is used to support general education teachers and small group instruction. Exploratory and support classes are available and taught by a teacher of the deaf. All academic and extracurricular activities are accessible to students who are deaf with the support of the appropriate related services and accommodations. CART provides equal access for students in need of support. FM systems and other assistive devices are available to students, as needed.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: Millburn Regional Day School, operated by the Bergen County Special Services School District, is a program serving students with multiple disabilities, ages 3 through 21. The goal of the Millburn School is to promote student independence, and to help students reach their full potential within their communities. To reach this goal, students are instructed with a comprehensive academic, vocational, and functional curriculum, which is integrated with an intensive therapy program offering speech, physical, and occupational therapies. Underlying all the work at Millburn is the commitment to total communication including sign language, augmentative communication, and assistive computer technology.
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Enrollment: 13Age Range: The Listening and Spoken Language program, operated by Bergen County Special Services School District, is placed within the school community of Midland Park Public Schools. The elementary program for students who are deaf/hard of hearing, offers a continuum of program options and services for this population. Students have the option of full-time placement in regular education programs with the collaborative team-teaching offered with the regular education teacher and the teacher of the deaf. Small groups are available. Speech therapists are certified in Auditory Verbal Therapy and address listening needs of students with advanced digital hearing aids and cochlear implants. A full time audiologist is on campus to manage equipment needs for the program.
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Enrollment:Age Range: The Hackensack High School Program for Students who are deaf/hard of hearing is a program operated by the Bergen County Speical Services School district and located in Hackensack High School. It serves students ages 15-21. They are supported in the general education programs using a teacher consultant model with a teacher of the deaf. Extensive planning with general education teachers and related services personnel is a critical component of the program. Educational interpreters and student notetakers also support students in the general education programs according to the individualized education program.
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Enrollment: 14Age Range: The Union Street School for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing is a program operated by the Bergen County Special Services School district and located within the Hackensack Public School District. The preschool-grade 8 program offers small group instruction as well as a full range of mainstream opportunities in the Hackensack School district. The general education curricula of the Hackensack School district is adapted to meet the unique learning styles of each student. Students in the general education classes are supported by the implementation of a teacher consultant model with a teacher of the deaf and an educational interpreter.
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Enrollment: 6Age Range: Summit Speech School teaches children who are deaf or hard of hearing to listen and talk. Our goal is to prepare children to enter the general education program in their neighborhood school by kindergarten or first grade. A full-day preschool program that follows the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards is offered Monday -Friday. The focus of the program is to train the children to use their hearing to process language and develop speech. Staff members possess specialized skills in working with students with hearing devices. Five speech therapy classes per week are offered, along with speech therapy practices integrated into the classroom curriculum throughout the day. Access to an education audiologist is also available.
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Enrollment: 10Age Range: There are currently 6 students enrolled in the Tabernacle program for students with hearing loss. Teachers of the deaf provide in-class support and/or pullout replacement instruction. Educational interpreters are available to support students in general education programs. American Sign Language is offered as a world language option.
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Enrollment: 18Age Range: Students with hearing loss are provided a language rich environment in the districts general education programs. Teachers of the deaf are members of the collaborative instructional team and offer in class support or resource room instruction. Speech language instruction and educational interpreting are offered as a related service according to the students individualized education programs.
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Enrollment: 50Age Range: The center was established in 1988 in response to a demand for comprehensive services for students who are deaf and hard of hearing at the postsecondary level in the state of New Jersey. The center is funded by Camden County College, the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education Special Needs Grant Program, and the New Jersey Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. As a New Jersey Regional Center, Camden County College also provides technical assistance to other New Jersey post-secondary institutions serving students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The college is also the New Jersey state site for NETAC (Northeast Technical Assistance Center), which is dedicated to working with postsecondary institutions to improve educational access and enhance opportunities for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey offers certificate and degree programs for students who are deaf or hard of hearing seeking career and academic training.
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Enrollment: 8Age Range: Currently, there are three resident students with a profound hearing loss, one of whom has a cochlear implant. These students have average to above-average ability and are integrated into regular education programs. The two older students are able to do this and be successful with the services of a sign language interpreter. The third student with the cochlear implant has a shadow to aid in re-directing her when she does not fully understand teacher directions. In addition, this child has been placed in a classroom with an FM system, as well as a sound field system. Support services are provided in the area of language development, reading and writing with the teacher of the deaf. Students from out of district are not accepted due to the great difficulty in finding sign language interpreters.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: Newarks secondary program for the deaf opened its doors to students who are deaf/hard of hearing in 1997. The program is within Technology High School, one of Newarks magnet public high schools. The program accepts out-of-district placements. Program options include in class support for general education classes or self contained classes.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: Gloucester County Special Services School District (GCSSSD) operates programs for deaf and hard of hearing students. The programs are staffed by certified teachers of the deaf, speech-language specialists, a certified audiological consultant, teacher assistants with sign language skills, and interpreters for the deaf. Occupational and physical therapies are available on an as-needed basis. The early intervention program is offered to eligible families with children ages birth to three in Gloucester and Camden counties. Referrals originate from Gloucester and Camden County Special Child Health Services. Early intervention services are delivered in the childs natural environment (i.e. home and/or day care facilities) and are designed to meet individual communication, motor and cognitive needs. Families are active participants and are a vital component in the childs program.The elementary and middle school programs are located in the Gloucester Public School District. Program delivery is accomplished through placements including self-contained classrooms, resource centers, in-class support and mainstreaming. Sign language classes and parent support meetings are also available to families of the students enrolled in these programs.
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Enrollment: 18Age Range: The Jersey City Program for Students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing serves preschool through high school-aged students. The preschool through elementary program is housed at P.S. #27. The high school program is at McNair Academic High School. The program options include a regular education program with teachers of the deaf providing in-class support, as well as self-contained classes. All of the students receive speech/language therapy and training in total communication. In addition, all of the youngsters participate in all school activities and are fully mainstreamed for all nonacademic subjects.
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Enrollment: 7Age Range: Two first-grade students attend Katzenbach School for morning classes and participate in their home district neighborhood school in the afternoon. Hamilton School District provides a half-time teacher certified as teacher of the deaf to provide both in-class replacement and support for the afternoon classes. In addition, the teacher may also provide individualized instruction when necessary.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: The Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf offers comprehensive educational services for deaf and hard of hearing students from birth to age 21. Day and residential programs are available. The educational programs include an early intervention Parent-Infant Program, the Nursery School, the Lower School, the Middle School, and the High School. Specialized programs include the Positive Learning Understanding Support Program (BSP) for students with emotional challenges, the Multi-Handicapped Program, and the KATS Program for academically talented students. Katzenbach provides developmental counseling, social work services, audiological services, and deaf culture instruction to all students. Katzenbachs off-campus programs include the Special Child Study Team for Students with Hearing Impairments and the Substance Abuse Prevention program.
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Enrollment: 16Age Range: The Oral/Aural program was started at Greenbrook School in 1988. Students who are deaf/hard of hearing were placed in regular education classes in order to provide these students with a peer group. They are supported by a teacher of the deaf, speech-language pathologist and an itinerant classroom aide. Classroom teachers receive consultation services from the teacher of the deaf and the speech and language specialist in order to coordinate the regular education curricula with the students specialized needs.All of the classrooms, which serve the students who are deaf, are carpeted. Many also have sound field systems. When appropriate, students wear personal FM systems. All classroom teachers and specialists are trained to use the FM systems and are provided with training for classroom management techniques which may be necessary for the students to succeed in the academic setting.
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Enrollment: 19Age Range: The Neptune Township Regional Deaf Education Program is sponsored by Neptune Township Board of Education. The program offers a continuum of educational options for students from preschool age through high school, utilizing a total communication approach. Self-contained classes are available, as well as in-class support with a teacher of the deaf in regular education classes. Interpreter services are provided during elementary specials such as physical education, music, art, and library. Interpreter services are also provided for all regular education classes at Neptune Middle School and High School and for all extracurricular activities.
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Enrollment: 14Age Range: Manalapan-Englishtown offers a comprehensive program for all the deaf students, depending on their needs. Participation in regular education programs is offered with resource center support with teachers of the deaf. Sign language interpreters, sound field systems for students with cochlear implants and FM systems are available. The students receive speech/language therapy according to their individualized education programs (IEPs). The classroom teachers attend meetings where they are provided with educational strategies for the deaf students in their classrooms. The older students are offered the services of a notetaker. Manalapan-Englishtown strives to create appropriate programs to meet the needs of deaf students.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: The Lake Drive School is a public school program for students who are deaf or hard of hearing which operates within the Mountain Lakes Public School District. The Lake Drive School provides a continuum of educational options for children with hearing loss from birth through high school graduation. The program serves resident students from Mountain Lakes, as well as students from out of district.The school is dedicated to the development of literacy and communication. Professional staff include teachers of the deaf, speech language pathologists, educational audiologists, social workers, psychologists, occupational and physical therapists, sign language interpreters, counselors, and consultants in areas such as child psychiatry, feeding and oral motor disorders. A team of trained paraprofessionals and other support service providers, including sign language interpreters, complements professional staff. Mainstream education with comprehensive support services is available throughout the Mountain Lakes School District for students with academic abilities. In addition, a team of itinerant teachers of the deaf provides support and in-service education to students who are educated in their home school districts.
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Enrollment: 13Age Range: The self-contained class for students with hearing loss at Silver Bay Elementary School is taught by a teacher of the deaf using a total communication approach. This program has a strong emphasis on language and speech development. The program is unique in that students participate in the self-contained program for half of the day, and the other half of the day, they are in regular education classes.
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Enrollment: 12Age Range: The Stafford Township School District provides an array of services along the least restrictive environment spectrum. The options include in-class support, resource center services and self-contained classes with mainstreaming.
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Enrollment: 17Age Range: A teacher of the deaf provides pull-out resource center services. Students are seen for 30-40 minutes daily. During this time, notetaking materials are reviewed, and preteaching occurs for academic subject areas which will be covered during the forthcoming week. A teacher of the deaf also consults with regular education teachers in order to provide for continuity of instruction. Educational interpreters are also available to provide interpreting as a related service in general education programs.
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Enrollment: 11Age Range: The goal of the program for students who are deaf/hard of hearing in Little Egg Harbor is to support placements within the regular education programs, including academics, specials and extracurricular activities. A teacher of the deaf provides in-class support, as well as pull-out replacement resource center programming at the middle school level. Interpreting services are available for after-school activities, such as art club, chorus, sports and band.A teacher of the deaf will also be team-teaching in the preschool program within the district.
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Enrollment: 12Age Range: Clifton has been serving students with hearing impairments since the late 1960s. The classes are located in a Pre-K though Grade 5 elementary building. The students participate in the same activities provided to their hearing peers.
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Enrollment: 21Age Range: The North Jersey Regional Center for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing is included among the programs at Passaic County Technical Institute. Academic and vocational course offerings are available, as well as a broad continuum of support and related services.
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Enrollment: 16Age Range: Currently, seven students enrolled in the Bridgewater-Raritan School District are auditorily impaired. Five of these students receive services in-district, with programs ranging from total mainstreaming in regular education programs with related services, to resource center replacement with certified teachers of the deaf. Two students attend private schools for the handicapped. The district employs one teacher of the deaf for the self-contained, primary-level Communication Impaired class. Two teachers of the deaf/teachers of the handicapped are on the resource center staff in the middle school. All decisions regarding programming are made based on the needs of the students.
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Enrollment: 12Age Range: In-class support and pull-out resource center programs are available to support students in regular education academic programs and special subjects. Related services are also available for extra-curricular activities.
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Enrollment: 10Age Range: The auditory impairment program provides a language-based curriculum which is infused throughout the program. Although the instruction is provided using multimodalities, the students preferred modality will be highlighted for instruction. In addition, strategies are utilized to improve and expand appropriate language skills.The academic curricula for the program follow the scope and sequence of the districts general education curricula in accordance with the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. The special education curriculum provides additional guidelines for instruction.
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Enrollment: 6Age Range: The Summit Speech School is a private, nonprofit facility, whose mission is to enable children who are deaf or hard of hearing to take their place in a hearing world by providing educational and therapeutic support services through an auditory/oral program. Using intensive speech, language and listening sessions, children learn to maximize their listening, language and speaking skills. The schools educational team tracks the childrens vocabulary, listening skills, speech, syntax, and discourse skills. The Parent Infant Program offers parents and caregivers the skills and confidence they need to help their young children learn to listen and talk. The Itinerant Mainstream Support Program provides educational and technical support to children and teachers in mainstream programs. Summit Speech School services children in Essex, Hudson, Morris, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Union and Somerset counties.
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Enrollment: 20Age Range: For more than 20 years, the deaf and hard of hearing program at Governor Livingston High School has educated young men and women from all over the state of New Jersey. This program offers a unique combination of specialized programming, along with the benefits and opportunities available in the districts high school. The school offers a wide array of academic and elective courses aimed at preparing students to meet the demands of a rapidly changing future.
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